SARASOTA – A 72-year-old, widowed polio survivor whose unorthodox swimming style rated a Jan. 31 story in the Herald-Tribune has been blown away by a community determined to keep her moving. “My mouth ...

SARASOTA – Left leg strapped snugly into an aging brace, spine curved by an exhausted scourge from another era, diminutive Kathi Coleman is among the last of her kind. She is hard to miss as she ...

Erin Olivera didn't know where to turn. It was 2012, and her 1-year-old son, Lucian, had suddenly become paralyzed from the waist down. While he was receiving excellent medical care from his doctors ...

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed ...

DUNMORE – It was a Friday in September 1953. Six-year-old Fred Garvey came home from first grade at Holy Rosary School with a wicked headache. That night, delirium set in as his fever soared. A doctor ...